MARC FITCH FUND — grant history

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Latest income

£247k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£225k

Accounts grants total

£194k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Prospective applicants should submit a brief outline of their project by e-mail. If the proposal meets the Fund’s criteria, the relevant application forms will be provided.
What they don’t fund: The Fund does not contribute to scientific and technical research, only work in the humanities and social sciences. We do not fund fieldwork, only the publication of the results of such work.

Summarised from www.marcfitchfund.org.uk on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (9 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (7 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (7 grantees)
General Charitable Purposes (2 grantees)
Amateur Sport (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Religious Activities (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (7 grantees)
Northern Ireland (2 grantees)
Darlington (1 grantee)
Derbyshire (1 grantee)
Kensington And Chelsea (1 grantee)
Kingston Upon Thames (1 grantee)
Richmond Upon Thames (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Surrey (1 grantee)
City Of London (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2023 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2023	FY2025
new	University of Oxford	—	£110k
new	College of Arms	—	£45k
new	Gough Map Symposium	—	£30k
new	HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES	—	£10k
new	Hearth Tax Project	—	£9k
new	THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND RECORD SOCIETY	—	£8k
new	Ulster Architectural Heritage Society	—	£7k
new	Monmouth Archeological Association	—	£2k
not listed	British Museum	£100k	—
not listed	Bodleian Library, Oxford	£38k	—
not listed	Colchester & Ipswich Museums Service	£28k	—
not listed	The York Medieval Press	£28k	—
not listed	YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON	£28k	—
not listed	Book Owners Online	£28k	—
not listed	Courtauld Institute	£26k	—
not listed	Historic Towns Atlas	£25k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
University of Oxford	FY2025	£110k	The Letters and Charters of King Henry \| (1100-1135)
College of Arms	FY2025	£45k	A Catalogue of the Visitation Manuscripts in the College of Arms: post of Editor
Gough Map Symposium	FY2025	£30k	The Gough Map Book
Historic Royal Palaces	FY2025	£10k	Building The White Tower: A Historic and Petrological Analysis of the Flamstead Tower Stairs
Hearth Tax Project	FY2025	£9k	Hearth Tax Research Project
Church of England Record Society	FY2025	£8k	National Prayers. Special Worship since the Reformation, volume 4: Anniversary Commemorations, Additional Material and Indices 1533-2023
Ulster Architectural Heritage Society	FY2025	£7k	Ulster Modern: Modern Movement Architecture in Northern Ireland, 1921-1949
Monmouth Archeological Association	FY2025	£2k	Monmouth Antiquary digitisation
Derbyshire Record Society	FY2025	£2k	Nathaniel Johnston's History of the Foljambe Family
Coker Rope & Canvas Charity	FY2025	£1k	Bucked in the Yarn
Blandford Museum, Heritage and Arts Trust	FY2025	£800	Reform, Riot and Transportation: Blandford Riots of 1831
British Museum	FY2023	£100k	English Medieval Coin Hoards: age of the sterling penny 1180-1351 and English Medieval Coin Hoards: from the return to gold to the Great Debasement 1351-1560
Bodleian Library, Oxford	FY2023	£38k	Understanding the medieval Gough Map through Physics, Chemistry and History
Colchester & Ipswich Museums Service	FY2023	£28k	Creating Constable
The York Medieval Press	FY2023	£28k	The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York
Yale University Press	FY2023	£28k	The Buildings of England: Staffordshire
Book Owners Online	FY2023	£28k
Courtauld Institute	FY2023	£26k	The National Wall Paintings Archive
Historic Towns Atlas	FY2023	£25k
Victoria County History	FY2023	£25k	Red Books Digitisation
Welsh Place-names Society	FY2023	£25k	Place-names of Carmarthenshire
Victoria County History	FY2023	£14k	VCH Wiltshire volume XIX, Mere and the Deverill Harlaxton Valley
Canterbury Archaeological Trust	FY2023	£9k	Transitions and Relationships over Land and Sea in the Early Middle Ages of Northern Europe
The Canterbury and York Society	FY2023	£7k	The Visitation of Hereford Diocese in 1397
Victoria County History	FY2023	£5k	Medieval Newport (Shropshire): an edition of charters and other sources to c. 1550
University of Sheffield	FY2023	£5k	Digitising the Medieval Guild Certificates of 1388-9: a pilot project
8th Darlington (Cockerton Green) Scout Group	FY2023	£4k	Archive digitisation
Twentieth-century Society	FY2023	£4k	Patrick Gwynne
Hearth Tax Research Project	FY2023	£4k
National Musuem Scotland	FY2023	£3k	The iron artefacts from Trimontium, the Roman fort at Newstead
Archaeopress	FY2023	£3k	Hadrian's Wall Cultural Resource Management 2022
Archaeopress	FY2023	£3k	Moel-y-Gaer, Bodfari, a small hillfort in Denbighshire, Wales
The Royal Historical Society	FY2023	£2k	The Rise of the Modern Historical Profession
St Bartholomew the Great	FY2023	£2k	900 Years
Prehistoric Society	FY2023	£2k	Neolithic Stone Extraction
University of Leicester	FY2023	£2k	The Wilberforce Diaries, 1779-1833: Parliament, Reform, and Abolition
Boydell & Brewer	FY2023	£1k	Frisians of the Early Middle Ages
Faculty of Archaeology, University of Oxford	FY2023	£1k	Moel-y-Gar hillfort excavation report
Yale University Press	FY2023	£1k	Wiltshire Non-conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses
British Academy	FY2023	£1k	Anglo-Saxon Charters of Worcester Cathedral
Faculty of History, University of Oxford	FY2023	£1k	The Writs and Charters of William II Symposium: Medieval Travel
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland	FY2023	£1k	Radar in Scotland 1938-46
Historic Towns Atlas	FY2023	£1k	Coventry Historical Map
Victoria County History	FY2023	£1k	Digitisation of Northern Archaeology
University of Exeter Press	FY2023	£960	Sacrament an Alter
Victoria County History	FY2023	£500	Economic History chapter of VCH Wilts Vol 20: Chippenham
Prehistoric Society	FY2023	£500	Fragments of Bronze
Historic Towns Atlas	FY2023	£500	Town and country; perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas
Anglo-Saxon Charters of Worcester Cathedral	FY2022	£28k
The Anglo-Saxon Charters of Worcester	FY2022	£28k
Book Owners Online	FY2022	£25k
The Buildings of England: Staffordshire	FY2022	£7k
The Bear Garden and Hope Playhouse	FY2022	£4k
Town and country: perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas	FY2022	£4k
Economic History chapter of VCH Wilts Vol 20: Chippenham	FY2022	£3k
The Vanishing Big House in Northern Ireland	FY2022	£3k
Coventry Historical Map	FY2022	£3k
Discovering Old Welsh Houses database	FY2022	£2k
The Register of Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1375-1381	FY2022	£2k
Place-names of Carmarthenshire	FY2022	£2k
Radar in Scotland 1938-46	FY2022	£2k
Edward I in Wales: Wardrobe and Household Records 1282-4	FY2022	£2k
Neolithic Stone Extraction	FY2022	£1k
Thomas Cromwell's home at the London Austin Friars'	FY2022	£1k
Re-Using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England	FY2022	£1k
Digitisation of the Thoresby (Leeds Historical) Soceity's Journal Series 1: 1889 to 1989	FY2022	£1k
2018 Harlaxton Symposium Proceedings: Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England	FY2022	£1k
Hadrian's Wall Cultural Resource Management 2022	FY2022	£1k
Re-Using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England	FY2022	£1k
Creating Constable	FY2022	£1k
Wiltshire Non-conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses	FY2022	£1k
Waldef: a medieval French romance	FY2022	£1k
Syon Abbey: archaeological investigations in Syon Park, Brentford 1997-2018	FY2022	£1k
Moel-y-Gar hillfort excavation report	FY2022	£1k
Fragments of Bronze	FY2022	£750
The Visitation of Hereford Diocese in 1397	FY2022	£533
Frisians of the Early Middle Ages	FY2022	£500
The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York	FY2022	£500
Patrick Gwynne	FY2022	£500
William Claxton: the Rites of Durham	FY2022	£500
Creswell Crags excavation reports	FY2022	£400

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 224771 vs reference 194278 (15.7% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.